>Number:         6002
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       (void) in NTOHL causes problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 21 08:05:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christian E. Hopps
>Organization:
	Merit Network, Inc.
>Release:        NetBSD 1.3
>Environment:
	
	System: NetBSD feeble.merit.edu 1.3 NetBSD 1.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jan 1 18:26:28 MET 1998 pk@flambard:/usr/src1/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc

>Description:

	The ``(void) (x)'' definition for NTOHL and friends kills code of
	the following type.

		metric = NTOHL(tosmet32);

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	Perhaps using ``((x) = (x))''.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: